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The Hardball Times has a great article today with 11 quirky baseball rules and scenarios you almost certainly didn't know could happen. My favorite? How a team can pull of a triple-play without a fielder even touching the ball:

There are runners on first and second with no outs. The batter hits a fair ball that can be fielded by one of the infielders. He is out by the infield fly rule even if no one touches the ball. Then the crazy stuff really starts. The runner on first passes the runner on second, so the runner on first is out due to rule 7.08, which forbids a runner overtaking another runner on the base paths. Two outs. The runner at second is then struck by the batted ball as it lands (rule 7.08 again-look, it covers a whole host of base running situations). There we have it three outs and no fielder has touched the ball.

Will that ever happen? Probably not ... but it could. Another classic is the 23 (yes, twenty-three!) ways a man can reach first base. Rack your brain to see how many you can get before heading over there -- and get creative, because some of the solutions are off-the-wall.

(via Ballhype)